Silver Lake, NJ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
130 ft 40 m120 ft 35 m120 ft 35 m110 ft 35 m99 ft 30 m95 ft 29 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Silver Lake sits at about 110 ft (30 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
110 ft 30 m
most residents: 100–120 ft
Lowest
95 ft 29 m
on the northeast side
Highest
120 ft 40 m
on the north side
Average
110 ft 35 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Silver Lake is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 25 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 110 ft30 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 120 ft40 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 95 ft29 m |
| Airport (EWR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.7 mi south of the CDP boundary | 18 ft5 m |
| Average of all land | 110 ft35 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Essex County, New Jersey, United States
- Population
- 4,730 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 14,509 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.7805° N, 74.1807° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) 18 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 07109
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Glen Ridge210 ft
- East Orange170 ft
- Bloomfield Township140 ft
- Watsessing130 ft
- Belleville Township110 ft
- Ampere North110 ft
- Silver Lake110 ft
- North Arlington100 ft
- Kearny88 ft
- East Newark27 ft
- Harrison21 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Jersey399th highest of 941
- Towns in Essex Countylowest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Stony Hill, Essex County640 ft
- Mayapple Hill590 ft
- Riker Hill540 ft
- Laurel Hill, Hudson County170 ft
- Little Snake Hill72 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census CDP boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 93 ft at 40.7818° N, 74.1782° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Silver Lake is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.